Pulling sail project to a computer with no local php / composer installed

@chibs A great help and you did it by your own.

@chibs Thank you chibs!

@chibs this will only run composer stuff but how to run php artisan sail:install if PHP is not installed.

@dalpatsingh How exactly would you expect to run a PHP framework like Laravel without PHP?

@dalpatsingh you would need to run it inside the container, which might not be possible

sail artisan sail:install

@kokoshneta Well, that’s the point of a containerised environment, innit?

@sinnbeck You can install the Composer dependencies using an on-demand Docker container like in the accepted answer. I actually do this myself by creating a simple shell script with that command and then a Makefile that runs it. It means someone can clone my repo and just run make install to get set up without needing Composer or PHP on their machine.

@martinbean yeah I know. I use it to install laravel in my own guide https://sinnbeck.dev/posts/using-lando-to-run-laravel-in-docker

My point was that I assumed the sail:install command would create the sail executable. So here you well need to use a second docker command to run artisan and install it. Using the sail tools wouldn't be possible to use directly

docker run --rm \
    -u "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
    -v $(pwd):/opt \
    -w /opt \
    laravelsail/php80-composer:latest \
    php artisan sail:install 

@martinbean I’ve never really used containerised environments, but my understanding is that even in those, PHP must still be installed in the image. How would anything be parsed in Laravel if there’s no PHP installation anywhere to parse it?

Edit: I assumed that, since running php artisan … commands would be entirely parallel to running the composer command in the accepted self-answer, the follow-up question must be about cases where there’s no PHP in the container. Rereading, perhaps it’s not as obvious as I’d read it, so I may have misinterpreted the follow-up.

@kokoshneta Yes, but the PHP installation lives in an image and not on your machine. So you pipe your PHP commands to the image that contains PHP to be executed, rather than running them directly on your computer.

@chibs thanks a lot! did it previously, by creating a new laravel project and copying the vendor folder...

@chibs Anyone know how to access private repositories in this docker instance? it crashes for me because my repo has private github urls in it.

@chibs this doesn't work if you've got e.g. platform requirements, such as PHP extensions, that are not included in the laravelsail/php80-composer image. Which is most of your specific platform requirements.

Here's what I did:

1. Use the accepted answer, but add --ignore-platform-reqs to composer install. This will install Sail, create the vendor dir, etc.
2. Use Sail to ensure deps are installed at their correct versions by running vendor/bin/sail composer install.